acts 26:8 why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that god should raise the dead

Acts 26:8

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Why is it considered incredible among you [people] if God does raise the dead?
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Why should it be judged a thing incredible in your sight if God raises the dead?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— What! incredible, is it judged with you, that, God the dead doth raise?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Why should it be thought a thing incredible vnto you, that God should raise againe the dead?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— How can you judge? Is it improper to believe that God can raise the dead?
John Etheridge Peshitta-Aramaic NT (1849)
— What judge you; ought we not to believe that Aloha will raise the dead?
James Murdock Peshitta-Aramaic NT (1852)
— How judge ye? Are we not to believe, that God will raise the dead?

Why 5101

{5101} Prime
τίς
tis
{tis}

Probably emphatic of G5100; an interrogitive pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions).

should it be thought x2919

(2919) Complement
κρίνω
krino
{kree'-no}

Properly to distinguish, that is, decide (mentally or judicially); by implication to try, condemn, punish.

a thing y2919

[2919] Standard
κρίνω
krino
{kree'-no}

Properly to distinguish, that is, decide (mentally or judicially); by implication to try, condemn, punish.

z5743

<5743> Grammar

Tense - Present (See G5774)
Voice - Passive (See G5786)
Mood - Indicative (See G5791)
Count - 271

incredible 571

{0571} Prime
ἄπιστος
apistos
{ap'-is-tos}

From G0001 (as a negative particle) and G4103; (actively) disbelieving, that is, without Christian faith (specifically a heathen); (passively) untrustworthy (person), or incredible (thing).

with 3844

{3844} Prime
παρά
para
{par-ah'}

A primary preposition; properly near, that is, (with genitive case) from beside (literally or figuratively), (with dative case) at (or in) the vicinity of (objectively or subjectively), (with accusative case) to the proximity with (local [especially beyond or opposed to] or causal [on account of]). In compounds it retains the same variety of application.

you, 5213

{5213} Prime
ὑμῖν
humin
{hoo-min'}

Irregular dative case of G5210; to (with or by) you.

that 1487

{1487} Prime
εἰ
ei
{i}

A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

God 2316

{2316} Prime
θεός
theos
{theh'-os}

Of uncertain affinity; a deity, especially (with G3588) the supreme Divinity; figuratively a magistrate; by Hebraism very.

should raise 1453

{1453} Prime
ἐγείρω
egeiro
{eg-i'-ro}

Probably akin to the base of G0058 (through the idea of collecting one's faculties); to waken (transitively or intransitively), that is, rouse (literally from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence).

z5719

<5719> Grammar

Tense - Present (See G5774)
Voice - Active (See G5784)
Mood - Indicative (See G5791)
Count - 3019

the dead? 3498

{3498} Prime
νεκρός
nekros
{nek-ros'}

From an apparently primary word νέκυς [[nekus]] (a corpse); dead (literally or figuratively; also as noun).

Acts 26:8

_ _ Why should it be thought a thing incredible ... that God should raise the dead? — rather, “Why is it judged a thing incredible if God raises the dead?” the case being viewed as an accomplished fact. No one dared to call in question the overwhelming evidence of the resurrection of Jesus, which proclaimed Him to be the Christ, the Son of God; the only way of getting rid of it, therefore, was to pronounce it incredible. But why, asks the apostle, is it so judged? Leaving this pregnant question to find its answer in the breasts of his audience, he now passes to his personal history.

See commentary on Acts 26:1-11.

Acts 26:8

Is it judged by you an incredible thing — It was by Festus, Acts 25:19, to whom Paul answers as if he had heard him discourse.

Acts 26:8

⁽⁴⁾ Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

⁽⁴⁾ He proves the resurrection of the dead, first by the power of God, then by the resurrection of Christ, of which he is a sufficient witness.

Acts 4:2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Acts 10:40-42 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; ... And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God [to be] the Judge of quick and dead.

Acts 13:30-31 But God raised him from the dead: ... And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

Acts 17:31-32 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by [that] man whom he hath ordained; [whereof] he hath given assurance unto all [men], in that he hath raised him from the dead. ... And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this [matter].

Acts 25:19 But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Genesis 18:14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Matthew 22:29-32 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. ... I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Luke 18:27 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

John 5:28-29 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, ... And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

1 Corinthians 15:12-20 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? ... But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept.

Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Gn 18:14. Mt 22:29. Lk 1:37; 18:27. Jn 5:28. Ac 4:2; 10:40; 13:30; 17:31; 25:19. 1Co 15:12. Php 3:21.